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Date:      Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:23:46 -0800
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Maxmem should be bytes ?
Message-ID:  <20030214002346.GA1267@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <u1y2b3eb7.fsf@unix-os.sc.intel.com>
References:  <200302080111.h181Bkr26574@unix-os.sc.intel.com> <u1y2b3eb7.fsf@unix-os.sc.intel.com>

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On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 04:18:20PM -0800, Arun Sharma wrote:
> Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com> writes:
> 
> > I found that my VHPT size was limited to 2**15 no matter how much
> > memory I had. I tracked this down to the code in machdep.c:598.
> > 
> > physmem is in units of pages and Maxmem is the number of bytes. This
> > incorrect assignment results in a small VHPT size.
> 
> I didn't see a response to this message. While VHPT < 2**15 isn't a
> huge issue, this bug could result in other correctness problems.

Such as?

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net

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